Principal Quality Engineer – Auditor

Job Title : Principal Quality Engineer – Auditor

Location : Filton, Weymouth, Frimley or Portsmouth Broad Oak. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary : £40,748 + depending on skills & experience

What you’ll be doing :

• Applying Quality Assurance Governance from design to delivery for products, programmes and support services
• Ensuring we maintain our ISO9001 accreditation by performing internal audits and process confirmations
• Monitoring and measuring project adherence to head contract quality management plans and QA requirements
• Working closely with internal peers and MoD to achieve project goals
• Producing and inputting KPI’s in support of business reporting
• Providing guidance to peers and suppliers by mentoring and coaching
• Using business Infrastructure tools to document and evidence compliance to relevant company processes
• Participating and leading local improvement activities

Your skills and experience :

Benefits :

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing, and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The ICS Quality Assurance Audit & Improvement Team :

Join our dynamic team and play a pivotal role in shaping key decisions that drive both team and organisational success. You’ll gain valuable exposure across the business and with the Ministry of Defence, ensuring your work makes a real impact. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow professionally through structured mentoring and formal training, empowering you to develop your skills and advance your career. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing date : 7

July 2025.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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